[inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Thank you all for joining us today. I just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching online, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Hosting the program is lindsey burke. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsey. Great, thank you, andrew. Thanks for everyone being here and everyone watching online as well. We are happy to welcome vickie alger to discuss her thorough and newly interested new books in the failures of federal intervention and education and she doesnt miss words at all. The title failure, its time to end and not mend federal intervention and education. Dr. Alger explains in her book federal government left education alone for about a hundred years recognizing that it was purview of states and local
L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pros. Ed humes has written 14 books, brian fagin has written more than 40. So lets start with jonathan waldman. This is his first book. Jonathan waldman [applause] [laughter] jonathan studied writing at dartmouth and at boston universitys Knight Center for science journalism. Hes written for outside, the washington post, the New York Times, mcsweenys, the utney reader. He has worked as a forklift dr
Which is a big topic in our election these days. Whether its good or bad for the economy is another question, but he wasnt unintended consequence. Brian, do you have any unintended consequences from the domestication of animals that you like to mention . Basically, thats a very very complex question to answer because if you look at the domestication of animals, you immediately and completely are altering into the microphone, please. You alter human relationship with the environment, landscape, with the land, with each other, with animals who become profiting. With the animals themselves. Immediately, although, in the early stages the relationship was fairly ultimately the animal becomes a commodity and in a way it is rather like of the container because on the one hand you have got all of these changes made, but on the other hand you have more interaction with people from a distance and as you got donkeys and then youve got horses and camels the distances got larger and larger. A whole
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It comes out of your head. So i think actually he was raiding a really good point. When just to when i was writing he had so many girlfriends i could take my children anywhere because there was a girlfriend there to interview. Including the dirt road across my daughters writing camp in vermont. Thats another way to save. Give you a tip. So, i have to say, without sounding polly annish, i loved every moment. Maybe because it was my second job and i still had another fulltime job was very consuming, plus im one of five children people up here, but it was really fantastic. There were a lot of people alive, or are, who knew jonas salk so i did over 100 interview starting we people in this Grad School Class who were still alive, and although the archives gave me this enormous amount of material, and i read all of the scientific articles he wrote and everyone else wrote about polio and aids and influenza and all the other diseases he was involved in. Wasnt just involved in polio. The intervi